Anna Bella Geiger

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Anna Bella Geiger (UNTREF - Bienal Sur 2016)

Anna Bella Geiger (* 1933 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian sculptor , painter , graphic artist and teacher of contemporary art.

life and work

Geiger began her artistic studies in the studio of the painter Fayga Ostrower in the 1950s . In 1954 she studied art history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at New York University and returned to Brazil in 1955. From 1960 to 1965 she took courses in the metal engraving studio of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, where she began teaching three years later. In 1969 she moved to New York with her husband and four children and returned to Rio de Janeiro in 1970. In 1980 she took part in the 39th Venice Biennale . In 1982 she received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York. She taught at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Gent , Antwerp , at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage in Rio. She has given courses at the School of Fine Arts in Beijing , MoMA in New York, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris and many other international institutions. Her works, which are characterized by the use of different media, are kept by galleries and private collections in the USA, China, Brazil and Europe.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954: Eglington Gallery, Toronto
  • 1963: European Gallery, New York
  • 1965: Galeria Goeldi, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1967: Galeria Relevo, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1968: Art Gallery, São Paulo
  • 1969: Columbia University, New York
  • 1974: Galeria Bonino, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1976: Galeria Arte Global, São Paulo
  • 1978: MoMA, New York
  • 1980: Galeria Saramenha, São Paulo
  • 1981: Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte, São Paulo
  • 1984: Brazilian Center, Londres
  • 1984: Galerie Irene Maeder, Munich
  • 1985: Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1987: Espaço Capital Arte Contemporânea, Brasília
  • 1988: Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1990: Galeria Saramenha, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1993: Galeria Ibeu Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1994: Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1995: Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt
  • 1997: Palácio Itamaraty, Brasília
  • 1999: Galeria Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt
  • 2001: Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2001: Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2002: Parque das Ruínas, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2003: Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2004: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
  • 2005: Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt
  • 2005 Galeria Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2006: Fundação Eva Kablin, Rio de Janeiro
  • 2017: Razem Pamoja Foundation Gallery, Krakow
  • 2018: Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw

literature

  • Jaremtchuk Daria, Anna Bella Geiger: passagens conceituais, Edusp - Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Violinist, Anna Bella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian sculptor, painter, graphic artist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil